Regarding the Angenieux lens, I copied the following text from R. Monahan's
excellent third party lens site,
http://www.smu.edu/~rmonagha/third/cult.html
Angenieux is a French third party lens manufacturer that ranks with
Schneider and Zeiss as one of the world's top lens makers.
Angenieux lenses are unfamiliar to most 35mm SLR users because they are very
expensive and come in only a few mounts, chiefly Leica. To a Leica user, a
top
quality Angenieux 70-210mm f/3.5 zoom for only $1,845 in 1983 is a bargain
;-) (that's $3,000+ in today's 1998 dollarettes).
Some of their earlier preset lenses were much less expensive, but still
multiples of the cost of similar speed and focal length lenses. Still, the
name is generally
associated with top optical quality, despite Angenieux's status as a third
party lens maker from a country (France) not generally associated with
manufacturing
35mm SLR optics.
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